Verse 68
68. And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again This is represented as the crowning calamity. The exodus from Egypt was the beginning of the nation’s life; this threatened return is a symbol of its death.
With ships Their departure from Egypt had been by a highway that Jehovah opened for them. They marched through the Red Sea. They are to be sent back helpless slaves. Ewald ( History of Israel, vol. iv, p. 221, note, English translation) says: “How could it be possible for the composer of Deuteronomy xxviii to conclude a long enumeration of the most various evils with the conveyance of the people back to Egypt in ships? So completely unique an idea could only have been suggested by experience.” But in the Records of the Past, vol. vi, p. 31, is a translation of an Egyptian document of the time of Rameses III., in which the king says: “I made thee galleys, transports, ships of war, with soldiers equipped with their arms on the Great Sea. I gave them captains of the bowmen, and captains of the galleys, provided with numerous crews without number, to bring the things of the land of Taha, and the hinder parts of the earth, to thy great treasuries.”
There ye shall be sold After the capture of Jerusalem, Titus sent many thousands of captive Jews to Egypt to be sold as slaves. JOSEPHUS’S Jewish War, Deuteronomy 11:9 ; Deuteronomy 11:2.
And no man shall buy you The number would be so great that they would be comparatively worthless.
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